Improvement in combined corn-planter and cultivator



inied" (Saisies JACOB C. HAZEN, OE WEST INDEPENDENCE,v OHIO.

:Letters 'Patent No. 96,319, dated November 2, 1869.

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IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED COR-PLANTBR AND CULTIVATOR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentand making part ot' the same.'

I, JACOB C. HAZEN, of West Independence, inthe county of Hancock, and State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Combined Planter and Cultiva'tor, of which the followingy is a specication.

Objective. l The object of this invention is to produce, in one machine, a planter and cultivator thatv can' be used for either or both, at pleasure.

Drawings. Figure 1 is a side elevation; Figure 2, a top view.

Like letters refer to like parts.

A is the beam B, the standard and C, the handles.

The beam is' mortised into the standard, as shown in fig. 1, and the handles are -secured tothe beam by staples or bolts, and. to the upper end of the standard, by means ofthe pin B.

The lower end of the standard inclines a little forward and receives the share E.

Upon each side of the standard B, where the beam A joins it, are attached iron arms F.. These are curved backward and downward, their lower extremity receiving the shares G, as shown in the figures.

At the termination of the horizontal portion ofthe arms, which in an ordinary-size implement is about one foot, they branch backward and downward, as shown at F', in fig. 1, their lower extremities receiving and supporting the roller H. Means for the adjustment of the roller to a higher or lower position, as'regards the shares, is provided by means of the holes h h h, in fig. l.

This'roller has, upon its right-hand end, a pulley, around which a band, J, passes. l

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'K represents a hopper,for containing the seed to be planted.

'lhe bottom of the hopper is provided with a feedroller, having seed-cups in its surface, and is of the ordinary construction, and provided with a brush to sweep o" the vsuperfluous seed.

One of the seed-cups is shown at a. M ,represents a seed-tube, which conveys the seed vfrom the cups to the ground, immediately in the rear of the share E. Q

The seed-roller is put in motion by the band J passing around a pulley on its right-hand end, by

means ofthe rotation of theroller H.

Operation.

The share E opens the furrow. rIhe seed .is deposited at Aregular intervals.

To convert this machine into a cultivator, it is only necessary to remove the Toller, seed-hopperlK, and y tube M.

' Claim.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to The combination ofthe detachable seed-hopper K, and tube M, the standard B, the shares E G-G, and adj ustahle roller H, the"v several parts being constructed and arranged as specied.

JACOB C. HAZEN.

Witnesses W. H. BURRIDGE, J. H. BURRIDGE. 

